O’Connor Second-Guesses Bush v. Gore Intervention

She stopped short of using the word “regret,” but retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor recently suggested that the high court shouldn’t have intervened in the 2000 election.

“Maybe the court should have said, ‘We’re not going to take it,'” O’Connor, who provided the key fifth vote to install Bush as president, told the Chicago Tribune of Bush v. Gore. She admitted that election authorities in Florida had done a poor job, and added that the Supreme Court likely “added to the problem at the end of the day.” Read more at The Washington Post.

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Gore would have been so much better than Bush it is shocking to remember how close that election was, with Gore getting half a million more votes nationwide. Just not invading Iraq would have saved the US four to six trillion dollars.

Gore would have been so much better than Bush it is shocking to remember how close that election was, with Gore getting half a million more votes nationwide. Just not invading Iraq would have saved the US four to six trillion dollars.

The nationwide popular has no relevance. We are a federal republic, not a unitary republic.

I hardly think Gore would have been any better than Bush. The Iraq War, I’ll concede, was very poorly executed.